New movies for Oct. 11

Wait, you thought we’d show a picture of Oscar-winner Tom Hanks in Captain Phillips this week? Why would we do that when we could show Sofia Vergara, her machine-gun brassiere and her clearly underdressed pals from Machete Kills? This is tbt*, you know.
Open Road Films

The gist: Tom Hanks stars in a recreation of the 2009 hijacking of an ocean freighter by Somali pirates. He has been promoting the movie by also revealing the 2013 hijacking of his pancreas by Type II diabetes. PG-13

The buzz: Director Paul Greengrass is on target with this one. "Hostage situations have inspired so many shallow, primitive genre films that it's eye-opening to see what an inspired filmmaker can achieve with the material," the Minneapolis Star-Tribune says.

Romeo & Juliet

The gist: Another retelling of two kids from rival gangs who probably would have benefitted from accessibility to Snapchat. At least, until their parents found their smartphones. PG-13

The buzz: You know, you could always just try reading the play. It's been around forever. "It makes Baz Luhrmann's 1996 contempo update — the one with Claire Danes and Leonardo DiCaprio and the plus-sign in its title — look like some kind of masterpiece," the Philadelphia Inquirer says.

Machete Kills

The gist: Robert Rodriguez continues to make his own grindhouse legend grow. This time Machete apparently kills someone. Probably with a machete. R

The buzz: What are you expecting from a movie that lets Charlie Sheen play the president? "A surprisingly long-lived gag finally runs out of gas in Robert Rodriguez's noticeably duller, less outrageous sequel to Machete," Variety says.

Also playing

The Tampa International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival concludes this weekend. For more information, go to tiglff.com.